Core features

Profile & cosmetics

Your profile page tracks everything you've learned and lets you personalise how you appear to other students. Cosmetics (avatars, card skins, rank labels) are all earned through practice, not purchased separately.

Your profile page (`/me`)

Every signed-in user has a private profile page at /me. This is where you see your progress, manage your cosmetics, and review your session history, all in one place.

Subject switcher

If you practise more than one subject your stats are tracked independently per subject. A tab row at the top of the profile page lets you switch between them. XP, streak, rank, and mastery charts all update to reflect the selected subject. There is no combined cross-subject total.

My subjects

Individual accounts curate which subjects appear in the header subject switcher from a My subjects panel on /me: toggle a Key Stage (GCSE or KS3), then tick exactly the subjects you study. Only the ticked subjects show in the switcher, alongside a “Manage subjects” link back to the panel, so you scroll through what's yours, not the whole catalogue. The subject you're currently in is always kept. For GCSE Science, a separate Science route picker on the same page sets Combined, a single separate science, or Triple.

This week's stats

A snapshot of your activity since Monday: sessions completed, XP earned, cards reviewed, and accuracy percentage. Useful for a quick gut-check on whether your revision volume is where it should be in the run-up to exams.

Mastery chart

A stacked bar that breaks down every card in your subject into five mastery levels:

Unseen: You have never been shown this card.
Seen: You have reviewed it at least once.
Familiar: You've answered it correctly at least twice.
Proficient: Three or more correct reviews and a review interval of at least 7 days. The card is starting to stick.
Mastered: Four or more correct reviews and a review interval of at least 14 days. You reliably recall this fact without prompting.

The goal is to push as many cards as possible into Proficient and Mastered before your exam. The spaced-repetition algorithm schedules cards to reappear just before you're likely to forget them, so consistent daily practice is far more effective than last-minute cramming.

Topic mastery

Below the overall mastery chart, a per-topic breakdown shows the same five levels for each topic in your subject. This makes it easy to identify which areas of the specification still have a lot of Unseen or Seen cards, the ones to prioritise next in your practice sessions.

Stats tabs: This week, 30 days, Session history

Analytical content lives in tabs so it doesn't crowd the page. The Session history tab lists every completed session with its date, mode, card count, and accuracy. The 30 days tab gives a longer-range view of your XP trend and session frequency.

Cosmetics section

Avatars and card skins are always visible on the profile page. Locked tiers are shown as teasers so you can see what you're working towards. Scroll down to reach them; they are never hidden behind a tab.

Rank system

Every subject has six ranks, driven entirely by the XP you've earned in that subject. Ranks upgrade automatically the moment you cross the next threshold. There is no ceremony required. Your rank label appears in your public profile, next to your name on leaderboards, and on the session done screen when you level up.

XP	Food	History	Geography	Science	RS	D&T	Business	Drama	PE Theory	CS	Sociology	Psychology	Music
0	Apprentice	Apprentice Scholar	Trainee Explorer	Science Student	Novice	Apprentice	Apprentice	Stage Crew	Rookie	Apprentice	Student	Student	Beginner
500	Junior Cook	Scholar	Explorer	Lab Technician	Junior Theologian	Junior Maker	Junior Manager	Understudy	Club Athlete	Junior Coder	Field Observer	Trainee	Chorister
1,500	Cook	Historian	Geographer	Researcher	Theologian	Maker	Entrepreneur	Performer	County Athlete	Coder	Researcher	Researcher	Musician
4,000	Sous Chef	Analyst	Field Researcher	Senior Researcher	Senior Theologian	Senior Designer	Senior Manager	Featured Actor	Regional Athlete	Senior Engineer	Analyst	Clinician	Soloist
10,000	Head Chef	Senior Historian	Senior Geographer	Lead Scientist	Head Theologian	Head Designer	Director	Lead Actor	National Athlete	Lead Engineer	Lead Sociologist	Lead Psychologist	Virtuoso
25,000	Master Chef	Master Historian	Master Geographer	Master Scientist	Master Theologian	Master Designer	CEO	Master Performer	Elite Athlete	Principal Engineer	Master Sociologist	Master Psychologist	Maestro

Average pace: a student doing two 15-card sessions per day at 75% accuracy earns roughly 2,000 XP per week. At that rate you'd reach Cook (1,500 XP) in under a week and Head Chef (10,000 XP) in about five weeks. A power user putting in an hour a day can hit Master Chef in two to three weeks.

Avatars

Each subject has its own character set. You earn avatar slots as your XP grows. The picker on your profile page shows every avatar in the set, with locked ones greyed out so you can see what's coming. There is no way to pay to skip ahead: every avatar is earned through practice.

Character sets by subject

Food (GCSE & KS3): Chef emoji with full skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations in total. Unlocked progressively from 0 XP (default chef) up through the full set.
History (GCSE & KS3): Scholar emoji with the same skin-tone and gender matrix as Food. The same twelve combinations, scholar-themed.
Geography (GCSE & KS3): Climber emoji (🧗) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations, same pattern as chef and scholar.
Combined Science (GCSE & KS3): Scientist emoji (🧑‍🔬) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations.
Religious Studies (GCSE & KS3): Judge emoji (🧑‍⚖️) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations. The scales-of-justice framing reflects the RS focus on moral and ethical reasoning.
Design & Technology (GCSE & KS3): Factory worker emoji (🧑‍🏭) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations.
Business Studies (GCSE & KS3): Office worker emoji (🧑‍💼) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations.
Drama (GCSE & KS3): Theatre-themed character set, twelve combinations.
PE Theory (GCSE & KS3): Sport-themed character set, twelve combinations.
Sociology (GCSE & KS3): Teacher emoji (🧑‍🏫) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations.
Psychology (GCSE & KS3): Health-worker emoji (🧑‍⚕️) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations.
Music (GCSE & KS3): Singer emoji (🧑‍🎤) with skin-tone and gender variants, twelve combinations. Music ranks run Beginner, Chorister, Musician, Soloist, Virtuoso, Maestro.

KS3 subjects share the character set of their GCSE counterpart. Food KS3 uses the chef set, History KS3 uses the scholar set, and so on.

Avatar unlock thresholds

Avatars unlock at nine XP milestones: 0, 100, 300, 750, 1,500, 3,500, 7,500, 15,000, and 30,000 XP. Each unlocked slot reveals both a new icon and a short flavour line (for example, "750 XP: You've baked bread that holds together" for Food). The flavour text is subject-specific. A History student at the same threshold sees a historian-themed line instead.

Tip: your selected avatar appears on the class leaderboard, the school leaderboard, and the global/league leaderboards for individual accounts. Picking an avatar you like is worth doing early. It's how other students recognise you on the boards.

Card skins

Card skins change the visual theme of your trading card, the collectible summary card that represents your progress in a subject. They do not affect the appearance of the practice question and answer layout.

Like avatars, skins are unlocked by XP thresholds and stay visible as teasers before you've reached them. Select your active skin from the cosmetics section of your profile page.

Cosmetics are XP-earned on every account.Pro doesn't unlock or shortcut them. Avatars, card skins, the character rank system and the trading card all unlock by XP on the free tier. Pro (£50/yr or £6/mo) is about unlimited daily sessions, keeping your streak freezes after the trial, position framing on the global leaderboard, and early access to new subjects. See the pricing page for details.

Public profile (`/u/[username]`)

Every user has a shareable public profile at /u/[username]. It shows your chosen display name, your current avatar, your rank, and your subject stats.

Privacy

Your real name is never shown on the public profile or on any leaderboard. Only the display name you chose during onboarding appears publicly. School students are covered by their school's data processing agreement; their profiles are accessible within the school context but do not appear on the global leaderboard.

What appears on the public profile

Display name (username / alias)
Current avatar for each active subject
Rank label and XP for each subject
Current streak (day count only)
Total cards mastered per subject
League tier (individual accounts only)
Earned event medals, displayed as a collection with event name and date earned

Sharing

Copy the URL from your browser address bar on your profile page to share it. The link is permanent. It doesn't expire and doesn't require the viewer to have an Educator account.

Streak & streak freezes

Your daily streak is the number of consecutive days you've completed your daily goal (a standard practice session). It appears prominently at the top of your profile and on the dashboard.

How the streak works

Complete any regular session on a given day and the streak increments by one: Standard, Speed Round, Marathon, Mark it, and topic drills all count. Live sessions (teacher-hosted) do not.
The streak advances once per calendar day (UTC); multiple sessions in one day only increment it once.
Miss a day without a freeze in reserve and the streak resets to zero.
The reset happens at midnight UTC (1am during British Summer Time).

Streak freezes

A streak freeze is spent automatically on the first day you miss your goal, protecting your streak count. You never have to manually activate a freeze. If one is in your inventory when midnight passes on a missed day, it is consumed and your streak survives.

Earning streak freezes

7-day streak milestone: +1 freeze every 7 consecutive days, capped at 5.
Homework completion: The first time you complete a homework assignment set by your teacher, you earn +1 streak freeze. Subsequent completions of the same assignment do not award another freeze.
Who can earn them: Freezes are capped at 5 on every account. There is no unlimited supply, so a streak can still be lost once you run out and miss enough days. Pro individuals, individuals on the 7-day trial, and school students all earn freezes (from both the 7-day milestone and homework completion). Only free individual accounts whose trial has ended can no longer earn freezes.

School students: your class teacher can set homework that rewards a streak freeze on first completion. Ask your teacher to assign homework on topics you're revising. It's a free freeze for doing work you should be doing anyway.

Practice: how XP is earned, session modes, and the adaptive card picker
Leaderboards & leagues: where your rank and avatar appear alongside other students
Spaced repetition & SM-2: how mastery levels are calculated and how cards are scheduled

Your profile page (/me)